Well,,,,, I had an accident............
Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 4:20 pm
I rode several hundred miles as a teen on a 50cc dirt bike. Now at 59, last year I took and passed the MSF. I've been super careful and dealt with several problems on my '81 GS550, about 2000 miles total. Today I was on my wife's 250 bike. Its controls are like a scooter. I was delivering it to her at work so she could practice for her test on the way home......
In a hurry, doing 20 in a 15mph zone, a car backed out 35 ft in front of me and blocked the lane(I paced it of). It had been drizzling and I locked up the wheels
. I didn't hit her. Even when she got out, leaving the car in the middle of the street, and said. "I stopped!" 
My left arm is still weaker after a shoulder replacement 9 months ago. I looked at the skid marks and it appears that I pulled the handle bars to the right. So I fell on the left. Bike on top of course, 10-12 ft before the car. Scrapped the leather off the steel toe on the left boot and lost a small patch of skin on the back of the same calf. I can't figure out how. I can use a new helmet also as my head bounced off the pavement on that side.
She wasn't pleased. I lost some paint on the front fiberglass fender and scraped the edge of her windshield.
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I'm po'd the woman was stupid.
I know It's my fault I dropped it.
Flame suit on............
In a hurry, doing 20 in a 15mph zone, a car backed out 35 ft in front of me and blocked the lane(I paced it of). It had been drizzling and I locked up the wheels
. I didn't hit her. Even when she got out, leaving the car in the middle of the street, and said. "I stopped!" My left arm is still weaker after a shoulder replacement 9 months ago. I looked at the skid marks and it appears that I pulled the handle bars to the right. So I fell on the left. Bike on top of course, 10-12 ft before the car. Scrapped the leather off the steel toe on the left boot and lost a small patch of skin on the back of the same calf. I can't figure out how. I can use a new helmet also as my head bounced off the pavement on that side.
She wasn't pleased. I lost some paint on the front fiberglass fender and scraped the edge of her windshield.
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I'm po'd the woman was stupid.
I know It's my fault I dropped it.
Flame suit on............
